Display stand



E. BALDECK DISPLAY STAND Jan. 10, 1939.

Filed March 3, 1936 Patented Jan. 10, 1939 r 2,143,592

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE DISPLAY STAND Emile Baldeck, Fully-Port,Lausanne, Switzerland Application March 3, 1936, Serial No. 66,916 InSwitzerland September 11, 1935 1 Claim. (Cl. 211-134) My inventionrelates to improvements in dis- I is the foot-plate of the stand,consisting of a play-stands commonly used in show-windows casting 3 witha sheet-iron covering 2. A pipe and shops and in whichin an otherwisewell- 4-forming the column proper-is attached to known manner--boardsfor the display of goods said foot-plate l and is provided with notches,

5 are interchangeably and at difierent elevations grooves or incisions 5at different elevations and attached to a column which latter isprovided staggered in horizontal planes about its circumwith a footing.ference. Said notches extend up to, or even be- Whereas in those designsof such columns which yond, the axis of said column so that theremainare known to the art the boards are fastened by ing part of thecross-sectional area of the latter way and means of a rod passingthrough the at these points of grooving allows a slight spring- 1 loedges of said boards and through said column, like and yielding actionof the top and bottom which latter consists of individual parts betweenwalls of said column. consecutive boards, said boards in the presentBoards 6 now may be slid or introduced into invention are held betweenthe two walls of slits said grooves in an accurately fitting way andaccurately fitting, with the latter being armanner and will be heldthere without the help 15 ranged at different elevations in planes atright of screws, clamps and the like. angles to the axis of said columnand staggered It is understood that the cross-section of said withrelation to each other. column, instead of being circular, may have anyThe said arrangement results in the advantage form or shape and that theform of the footthat no screws have to be loosened for the displate isadapted to the cross-section of the column. location of said boards andthus no tools will be The stand shown and described especially isrequired and, furthermore, there will not be any adapted for the displayof objects in show-winpossibility that any parts of the stand becomedows. It may, however, also be. used in housemislaid or lost. holds fordisplaying pots of flowers and the like.

In order now to afford a sure grip of said Anelectric lamp may beattached to the upper 25 boards in said slits of the column, it is ofcourse end of column 4 for illuminating the articles necessary that amaterial be used for the manudisplayed on the boards 6, whereby thewiring facturing of the latter and the boards which does suitably isconducted inside the hollow column 4.

not deform under the influence of changes of I claim:

temperature and of the humidity of the atmos- A display stand includinga hollow column, 30 phere. Such materials are metals and the vartheotherwise uninterrupted annular wall of ious artificial resins. which isformed with a series of channels opening Since said arrangement ofboards and column through the surface thereof and off-set relative doesaway with the use of screws, clamps and to each other vertically of thecolumn, the chanthe like, said boards may be removed, internels beingformed by incisions through the annu- 35 changed and attached in a verysimple and rapid lar wall of the column to a depth approximating manner.The slight spring-like, yielding action one-half the circumferentiallength of the annuof the column in the cross-sectional area remainlarwall of the column, each of the channels having back of the notches orgrooves required for ing a depth in such relation to the transverse theinsertion of said boards is sufficient for exdimension of the column'asto permit a slight 0 erting a clamping effect on the boards thusyielding of that portion of the column above a assuring a sufiicientgrip or hold for the latter. particular channel under pressure againstthe In the accompanying drawing an execution of upper and lower walls ofthe channel, whereby design is illustrated in the way of an example thechannel may yield slightly to receive an eleshowingment and clamp theelement in the channel with- 4 Figure 1, a side-view; out additionalfastening. Fig. 2, a plan-view; and Fig. 3, a perspective view of thestand. EMILE BALDECK.

